Mahoosuc Guide Service

About Mahoosuc Guide Service

Dogsledding Vacations, Trips, and Tours

Like Dogs? Like Snow? A dogsledding trip may be the winter vacation for you!

Mushing Magazine, the recognized international authority on dogsledding, recommends us (CNN article) as one of North America's Top 5 outfits to go dogsledding with:

-We are both Master Maine Guides, the highest level recognized by the State of Maine with 25 and 35 years experience.
-2013 is our 35th consecutive year in business.
-We are full time professionals. Guiding is all we do - it is not a part time hobby.
-All of our trips are owner guided. One of us (Kevin or Polly) is on each of our trips.
-We are one of the few kennels where every dog was personally raised by us from puppyhood. They are all well trained, and we have been working with these bloodlines since 1979.
-We take extremely good care of our dogs. They get a summer vacation, full vet care, pastures to play in during the off season, and retirement to our house.
-We make our own wooden dogsleds, snowshoes, and toboggans.
-Our Yukon huskies are novice-musher friendly. Small size teams (5 dogs) with big steady dogs make it easier for beginners to learn to mush.
-Our business received the Maine Office of Tourism “Excellence in Nature Based Tourism Award.”
-Mahoosuc Guide Service offers the only Winter Guide Training course in Maine for guides and outdoor leaders.


Canoe Trips - Allagash River and the other Wilderness Rivers in Maine and Canada

If you like paddling wilderness rivers, seeing wildlife up close, and listening to the cry of a loon on a northern lake, then a Mahoosuc canoe trip may be a good choice for you. The Allagash River canoe trip is our most popular, but we guide all of Maine's wilderness rivers. We are very experienced northern paddlers and are comfortable teaching quiet water or whitewater techniques, as well as canoe poling. If you're interested in learning from the native people who developed the canoe, check out our Canoeing with the Cree trip. If you're an angler, check out our salmon fishing on the Miramichi River, New Brunswick, our May Allagash River canoe trip, or the Aroostook River canoe fishing trip in June.

A few reasons you may want to consider Mahoosuc Guide Service for a canoe trip vacation are:

-We are Master Maine Guides with 25 and 35 years of experience.
-2013 is our 35th consecutive year in business.
-We are ACA certified Instructors and Instructor trainers.
-We are full time professional guides. Guiding is all we do.
-Mahoosuc Guide Service offers the only Canoe River Guide Training Course in Maine.
-We handcraft our own cedar-canvas canoes, paddles, and setting poles.
-We developed one of the first River Rescue courses for professional guides back in 1985.
-We received the State of Maine's “Excellence in Nature Based Tourism Award.”